Beyond Bergson : examining race and colonialism through the writings of Henri Bergson / edited by Andrea J. Pitts and Mark William Westmoreland ; foreword by Leonard Lawlor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pitts, Andrea J., editor.

Westmoreland, Mark William, 1983- editor.

Lawlor, Leonard, 1954- writer of foreword.

Series:

SUNY series, philosophy and race

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941.

Bergson, Henri.

Physical Description:

xvii, 255 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Building upon recent interest in Henri Bergson's social and political philosophy, this volume highlights extensions and critiques of Bergson's writings through the lenses of critical philosophy of race and decolonial theory. Placing Bergson's work in conversation with theorists from Africa, the African Diaspora, and Latin America, the contributors examine Bergson's influence within literature, science studies, aesthetics, metaphysics, and social and political philosophy to show the role that his work has played within differing geopolitical contexts. The volume pays particular attention to both theoretical and practical forms of critical resistance work, including historical analyses of decolonial and anti-racist movements that have engaged with Bergson's writings, for instance, the Négritude movement, the Indigenismo movement, and the Peruvian Socialist Party. These historical and theoretical intersections provide a timely and innovative contribution to the existing scholarship on Bergson, and demonstrates the importance of Bergson's thought for contemporary social and political issues"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The hope for this volume : sympathy / Leonard Lawlor

Introduction : creative extensions / Andrea J. Pitts and Mark William Westmoreland

Decolonizing Bergson : the temporal schema of the open and the closed / Alia Al-Saji

The language of closure : homogeneity, exclusion, and the state / Martin Shuster

The politics of sympathy in Bergson's the two sources of morality and religion / Melanie White

Bergson, Senghor, and the philosophical foundations of négritude : intellect, intuition, and knowledge / Clevis Headley

The spectacle of belonging : Henri Bergson's comic negro and the (im)possibility of place in the colonial metropolis / Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel

Racial becomings : evolution, materialism, and Bergson in Spanish America / Adriana Novoa

Bergsonism in post-revolutionary Mexico : Antonio Caso's theory of aesthetic intuition / Andrea J. Pitts

Antagonism and myth : José Carlos Mariátegui's revolutionary Bergsonism / Jaime Hanneken.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-226) and index.

ISBN:

9781438473512

1438473516

OCLC:

1051777127